What Actually Happens When You Donate Your Body to Science

Planning ahead is never a bad thing, especially when it comes to your death. Check out today's video to learn about what would really happen to your body if you donated it to science. You won't believe what could end up happening to you! Watch now!
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[@wrongsob]

There's a book called "Stiff" that talks about some of the interesting things that they have done with cadavers. Very interesting read, highly recommend.

[@DarkbutNotsinister]

Loved this book! Highly recommend x2!!

[@chillmushroom6016]

Cadavers means corpse in Spanish

[@Harith5]

ok 👍

[@louieDsypo]

Like what

[@monkc3812]

@@chillmushroom6016 and french

[@gamma_noize]

"What happens when you donate your body to science" - You get sold to the US military, who do explosives tests on you... True story...

[@SnowWhite-hr4ho]

if it helps save soldiers lives that's good

[@shaymarie878]

I hope so! I donated my body to science and military testing was an extra section that I signed up for!

[@billcipherproductions1789]

@@SnowWhite-hr4ho You know what will really save soldier lives? Stop being involved in wars that have absolutely nothing to do with you.

[@nemo2203]

They are also used for car crash testing.

[@MarcusCollins69]

@@billcipherproductions1789 but murica need oil

[@ComicalRealm]

Imagine if the donor is a teacher, and after their death they'd still be a teacher.. but teaching an entirely different subject and to scientists

[@melissaharris3890]

I know someone that was a special ed teacher that donated her body to science.

[@ilan4605]

Imagine and then what?

[@arjun.a.dikshith3543]

Oof

[@dat1dude591]

Your everywhere

[@noeyesprotagonist8987]

imagine that teacher was teaching anatomy or something then suddenly died . . . . . . .from being before board to on the table

[@ButacuPpucatuB]

I actually would donate my body. It’s not painful… you’re already dead! And just for a bit of perspective, a lot of people do address and treat the donated body with respect.

[@DragonKazooie89]

I’d like my brain to be donated to science. I’m on the Autism Spectrum and hopefully it will help with understanding how a female brain on the spectrum works.

[@jamesk5541]

Not sure they can use a brain and break down your condition after your gone. While your alive though they can document how you think and feel while having autism and what it inhibits you

[@jtseld5112]

That's great to hear! I don't know if you are UK-based or not, but I am donating my brain to the Queen's Brain Bank Trust, so my brain can be studied for understanding of neurological movement disorders (I have Tourette Syndrome).

[@drunkenpumpkins7401]

@@jamesk5541 Not atm, but who knows what they can do in about 30/40 years.

[@DigitalAndInnovation]

@@jamesk5541 This comment has questionable rhetoric. This is not how we approach science. While it cannot be guaranteed this individuals brain will be studied for anything specifically or prove any conclusive answers... There is nothing to say we couldn't learn anything after death. Also work on your wording, it's very clunky.

[@jamesk5541]

@@DigitalAndInnovation My wording and ways I wish to communicate and talk are my ways. You got my point and I didn't have to do a rough draft to do it.

[@Brand131]

I was half-expecting this episode to talk about that scandal in France, where there is/was a facility that was underfunded, with refrigeration not working, bodies piled up on another, mice and worms eating them. Pretty gruesome.

[@Yeovelyn]

Whattt????! 🤢🤢🤢

[@lukeblanch3672]

Should have just lit that facility on fire and walked away

[@ilikecatsalot4688]

Ice

[@DarkNoktra]

Its Its not gruesome cuz they are dead

[@Brand131]

@@DarkNoktra That's maybe true when you're a cannibal or necrophile, but for most normal people 'gruesome' is a fitting description.

[@DomiAnimations]

“Maybe you are an under achiever” *panic*

[@MissSimsalot]

Well it's not the same as donating a whole body but I did donate the placenta after giving birth to my daughter. I gave birth in a university hospital and I just asked if it was possible to donate it to science, and they told about a research on stem cells in the umbilical cord. I never found out if my contribution made any difference. But it's still kind of cool to think about it.

[@bobbyballistics1225]

You should’ve ate it

[@Macadamia923]

@@bobbyballistics1225 gross. Haha. My cats do it.

[@johntaranto29]

What if they used your babies cells in a cloning facility, and your daughters clone is sent to a secret military assassin training program, and by 16 or 17 she escapes to find her true family, but instead of being mad about your donation, she just wants hugs and love and go to school with her identical twin sister and be her ninja bodyguard.

[@Macadamia923]

@@johntaranto29 What if she turns in to a hitman and her first job is to eliminate her placenta donating mother? ☠️

[@TsjuunTze]

Was it the AMC hospital? I know they are one of the world leading teams in stem cel research. (Given your name I think you are from Holland, if not sorry for the assumption lol)

[@joyboy6535]

We told our dad were gonna donate his body to the army when he dies for being a deadbeat lol

[@alwegiesushimi6137]

😂😂😂

[@ronaldswangler2538]

I have an undiagnosed autoimmune condition so I'm donating my body. Hopefully I can help others when I'm gone.

[@firewolff5972]

Man i really hope you will help others, wether your alive or not

[@ilikemacaroon8515]

༼;´༎ຶ ۝ ༎ຶ༽ ❤️👏🏻

[@blueoak5262]

I'm a Pokémon researcher, I'm not sure how donating my human body to science would advance the study of Pokémon.

[@ashplayzz-official-1326]

Lol 😂

[@mirrame1326]

Good one

[@dhruvgauni1414]

Kinda cringe ngl

[@rockstarmemes6378]

Wait a minute ? Who are you!

[@jn.r]

@@dhruvgauni1414 yep

[@idreamof100ksubs]

I’m honestly not gonna lie donating your body to Science sounds pretty scary 😧

[@blackdeath4788]

Let me ask you this question Why does it matter what happens to your body after you die

[@alexsmith...455]

@@blackdeath4788 yeah! 🤔

[@PolyWho]

@@blackdeath4788 good point

[@Idk-dc7hv]

You you won’t be alive when it happens, tho. It’s better than rotting in the ground

[@mirrame1326]

I’m just gonna go with cremation

[@estiennetaylor1260]

Becoming the next breakthrough in science.

[@BooboosANDBloodshed_95]

Could you do a video for what options do we have after we pass . I saw a video once that showed you could be turned into soil which you could then use to plant flowers 🏵

[@sleepygoth13]

Seconding this! Body disposition options are fascinating

[@kujju18]

Yes!! I didn’t even know what’s you mentioned was a thing. Would be awesome to learn more!

[@jaystark841]

Another place for donated bodies are "body farms." They study decomposing bodies in different situations. I hear, for the more macabre among you, they even give tours.

[@namangarg1268]

Person : dies of a car accident Dead person : again?

[@HappywifeTaylor]

I've already told told my family I want to donate my body to science.

[@alwegiesushimi6137]

Your prized procession that allowed you walk among earth when your absent you want science to humiliate it nah

[@HappywifeTaylor]

@@alwegiesushimi6137 I'm dead. Why would it matter?

[@Megan-bv9dg]

@@alwegiesushimi6137 Better than being thrown into a hole left to rot

[@bryanlasermagiktyler3132]

I want to be made into a diamond that way somebody can appreciate me and I can sparkle and shine for them and bring some happiness into their life

[@akinman123]

This comment hurt my brain to understand

[@firewolff5972]

@@akinman123 your comment was more diffucult to understand ngl

[@akinman123]

@@firewolff5972 it’s because you’re used to classic simple sentence formations. But I don’t expect much from YT kids

[@firewolff5972]

@@akinman123 ok, i would like you to know that the reason i don't understand some things in english is that i am learning

[@twocvbloke]

You know what they say; "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!!!" :P

[@tallonmetroids271]

I was already not okay with the idea of donating myself to science, but knowing I've gotta get stuck and tested on while still alive puts the final nail in that particular coffin. Pun intended.

[@The_fastfreddy]

Am I the only one still wondering when the Bigfoot hunt challenges going to be or if it's going to happen at all

[@jovanaluna568]

I'm good with all of it. Im dead and don't care. I've always wanted to have my body donated to science after I croak now I know how to go about it.

[@eternal9512]

They actually just joke about an old lady getting blast💀💀I love this channel

[@xtremeacoustics3323]

Hats off to you bro at least 2 videos per day sometimes 3 after such success big deal bro nice

[@nocontest2300]

“His mother had a blast” haha. Ruthless

[@bigdaddy7119]

Ron Jeremy was gonna donate his body to science, but they said he had donated too much of his body already....

[@holeesheet324]

As an atheist and a science enthusiast,this is the perfect thing my body can be used for

[@BrodieMitch]

My mum has a story about this. She once was doing something on a dead body with a friend and they took the arms of the dead man and started fighting each other with them

[@kingocheeto8404]

That's disgusting, why would anyone get pleasure from using a dead persons body parts for that. That's definitely not what the donor wanted their body to be used for.

[@giantalaskanworm719]

@@kingocheeto8404 I'm a med student and the doctors always told us to treat cadavers with respect as if they were alive. What she did was indeed ethically wrong.

[@gusthemouse4120]

*don’t laugh don’t laugh don’t laugh * 😂

[@MrMind-st2ix]

I wonder if they gonna make more robots that have more human's parts in it.

[@mirrame1326]

Wow That will be interesting 🤨

[@boyankovachev7982]

Why would they? I mean, we can create much better ones

[@wasabisan7120]

yep

[@zachcrawford5]

Yes, there has been recent research into growing organoid brains (they are a few millimeters across) from human cells that are modified, by removing the human genome and replacing it with a Neanderthal genome. They grow very differently in structure to unmodified human brain organoids. The is talk of the next step being to hook these organoid brains to small robots that feed them sensory information and allow the organoid brains to react by controlling the robots and they want to see how much of an effect having such a different structure has on the organoid brains responses. They hope the gain some understanding on how human and Neanderthals minds were different on a fundamental level and gain more insight into how the geometry of a brain effects how it functions in general.

[@Ayush-qz8ns]

@@zachcrawford5 r/woooosh

[@veganessence5270]

The fact I could be rejected even after death is disconcerting.

[@caressaclark1042]

Not too many people would reject that face😊

[@zeyadhesham7806]

@@caressaclark1042 gay

[@sinofsloth6516]

@@caressaclark1042 thats pretty sus

[@ewoybz]

“I’m something of a scientist myself”

[@olivermatusik1511]

69 likes ain’t gonna ruin it

[@adurzite]

"I'm gonna put some dirt in your eye!"

[@Cosmic_fear]

Ganna ruin that 79

[@ewoybz]

@@Cosmic_fear Yesir

[@okidokidraws]

The science of anatomy was born and Mary Shelly took it a step further in Frankenstein

[@melissaharris3890]

I'm donating my body to a medical university.

[@direwoulf1663]

What happens if you spend too much time in space? I've read about astronauts who developed severe health complications when they returned to earth after months in space

[@aliliaaa]

Your bone density would decrease and you'll get osteoporosis, there's other things too, search up "nasa twins space experiment"

[@robertruark8797]

Both my parents donated their bodies so I understand I am going to do the same.

[@left7061]

Guyssss we are not useless anymoreeeee

[@tiny7209]

Always informationfull

[@thomasbriscojr.3765]

I know The Bible talks about Isaac and being embalmed in the book of Genesis innocence but the philistines did it in Egypt.

[@slowpxtmsom]

I rock with this channel 💪🏿 great information about great topics. And it’s decently all inclusive. I like how they snuck in the black ancient Egyptians on the wall. The little things go a long way.

[@vickygraham2444]

Stiff, the curious life of human cadavers, by Mary Roach who's writing style is a lightly humorous like Erma Bombeck

[@pocketfacts9]

So... is anyone going to talk about the fact that on the thumbnail one foot has 5 toes and the other has 4?

[@IMeanMachine101]

I signed up for this when I turned 18

[@Yorelz]

I can’t imagine getting sick before modern science. Something simple and it’s a death sentence. Insane

[@bmitzagrrmursal6233]

Watching from Afghanistan it's terrible here 😭😭😭

[@Kstang09]

Make sure to donate your body! lol.

[@ambienbrain8261]

Off topic: I've always wondered about pet cremation. I had my dog cremated and wondered what ashes did I get. It's not farfetched to think that pet crematoriums don't cremate just one pet.

[@durbinmitchell]

I cant speak for any pet crematoriums but years ago i worked at an aminal shelter who also did cremations. I never preformed the cremations but they did make me empty the incinerator once (refused to do it again). They either cremated a single animal at a time or multiples when we were backed up. The incinerator emptied all the ashes / bone fragments into a 55 gal metal drum. The staff would scoop some ashes from the drum if you requested them, otherwise the ashes would just sit in the drum until full then they made us empty it in the dumpster. It was all pretty sad and after my other dog passed away i opted for a burial at a pet cemetary. Im sure there are many respectable pet crematoriums out there but i would always do thorough research on the place first.

[@gyufrtsgftrs436jjg]

I was with my pup when he was put in the cremation machine. It cost more, but I know I have his remains.

[@Galapagopuzzone]

Infographics show: talks about death. The music:😀🎶🎵🎶😉😁

[@NishidaTegaru_nZk]

I like the BGM in this one

[@ericbonewicz7259]

You had me convinced until the end

[@MichelleOfDarkness]

I like this video. I'm actually less hesitant on donating my body to science. I'm not gonna use it anymore when I'm gone so... Waste not, want not, am I right? Any little bit helps.

[@harringtonvo]

Had no idea Randal Graves from “Clerks” ended up narrating KZbin videos. Crazy!

[@bortepou3577]

nice video

[@richardkuehn7015]

I’ve already signed up in the U.K. so my body will go to a London medical college.

[@goatmealcookies7421]

If you want to do so, make sure that you make arrangements long before hand. Once someone has died, even if they ask, It is suprisingly hard to arrange.

[@JoseAlba87]

What happens. does it matter I'm dead. 4 good of Science I'll donate

[@yellow4602]

yes

[@jamesmartin8532]

Aye. That sick 360 no scope would be....sick. Tbh

[@Ehrgeiz33]

Depends on the country. In France they completely disrespect the corpse and make an unethical mess of it.

[@jakericcitelli8044]

The hacking of things apart is how I got into computers. True story. Being 11 and being fascinated by tech and being 18 now and knowing how it works translated to computer hardware knowledge.

[@MrDrProfMoose]

Something tells me my guys never pulled a sick 360 no scope in CoD before

[@DavidRice541]

Lol covid made it in quickstat! Smh cmon

[@bigafroman4277]

Lol this video had a different humor to it and it worked 👌

[@donm5354]

They turn you into FRANKENSTEIN Cyborgs for the Military - or is it FRONK-N-STEEN?

[@NCTRX]

In an distant We can see some people who rage on game getting no scoped

[@zacharyengle4256]

5:14 Unrelated to the actual topic, but I actually enjoyed Prometheus and Alien: Covenant (a lot more than Alien 3 and Alien: Ressurection, too, in fact).

[@DeepakVerma-xl9wx]

I LIKE THIS MUSIC. PLEASE SHARE THE LINK

[@baambaam3976]

I suspected that this could be the toymaker talking. The narrator is top notch.

[@nostalgia613]

Dissection is my very first thought

[@91vp26]

Next challenge in the challenges series. Challenging our challange guy to donate his body for since 🙃

[@reesewilcoxon5896]

Please make a video on Baby Face Nelson😩😩

[@nadam1237]

"all you have to do is die"

[@bhogeswarsaikia6813]

Nice

[@jep8480]

Back in my day 360 noscope was a thing

[@ZacharySkan]

"All you have to do is die!" Suicidal people: don't mind if I do

[@gabrielkawa3477]

That shade haha

[@williamdobbs6740]

They sold me! Where do I sign up?

[@dinoboba1185]

ah yes, what i do when my parents die in bitlife

[@demonteddybear3510]

This is what I plan to do with my body when I die. Keeping my fingers crossed for a Frankenstein science project though. I do contain in a protective case that goes with me everywhere a Abe Normal brain.

[@williammullen7504]

🎵🎶 I ain't got nobody🎶🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶

[@migglemaggle9500]

I was going to do that. The $ cost of the donation is expensive.

[@jackleonard4082]

Same

[@sophiastamper9672]

Early! Btw love the video

[@mojtabarezaei8479]

Interesting video, BUT the background music is TOO LOUD and distracting!

[@openscenery1630]

5:22 future terminator overlords 😂😂😂

[@Sweet0nYT]

"All you have to do is die." Wow

[@M4H1T0]

im only 17 years old, but I'm definitely looking to donate my body to science in the future. I won't be using it, so why not play a small part into the progress of science which is basically the backbone of our modern society

[@Unpug]

Oh no

[@TrenchCoatGang]

Oh my Gawd

[@DreadEnder]

4:30 debatable

[@thehighscalls]

Science requires sacrifice.

[@Dezxmm16]

That's cool

[@williamcowsky9672]

Interesting

[@bhaiyakunalsinha2729]

Ancient Indians have done the worlds first Surgery 👍🏻

[@ISmileBecauseIHaveTo]

Well I don’t know what else to do with myself after I die…

[@DRSTCMSUR]

Well it's official when I pass I shall be made into a firework

[@rockngaming2060]

One time I went to moody gardens ,Galveston and they had a real body exhibit Truly disturbed

[@minhtihd5418]

"I am in constant pain and agony, I have no friends and I just lost my job, what do I do?" Google: Seek help here, this will introduce you to new people, help you get back on your feet Bing: 0:11

[@ritchievaughngreene3443]

Now I know this be where my body goes after death. Totally wicked!

[@chikns321]

Unless some of my relatives are alive i would donate my body

[@jaianupamvarun5342]

This is the only video I didn't like by Infographics, not because they did something wrong but I feel a little bit unsettled after listening to wtf happens to those who are generous enough to donate their body after they pass away :(

[@nora_nayeli]

What I got from this video is we are all scared to donate our body to science and for good reason.

[@KostitosConQueso]

Robot surgery is getting very advanced. I heard they did surgery on a grape.